Thread-cutter for thimbles



(No Model.)

A. O. SHATSIOK. THREAD CUTTER FOR THIMBLES.

Patented June 2,1891.

WITNESSES.

UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE,

ARTHUR O; SHATSICK, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

TH READ-CUTTER FOR THIM BLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 453,393, dated June 2, 1891.

I Application filed December 26, I890. $erial No. 375.898. (N model.)

To aZZ whom itmcoy concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR O. SHATSIOK,

a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Thread Cutters for Thimbles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to devices attachable to thimbles for severing the thread used in sewing.

It has for its object to provide a simple, effective, and convenient attachment for thimbles for severing thread, adapted to be fitted to thimbles of different sizes as already made without altering the thimble therefor; and it consists in the hereinafter-described device.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference denote like parts in the several figures, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a thimble with the cutter hereinafter described attached. Fig. 2 is a sectional View taken on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a View, as in Fig. 1, of a modification of my invention. Fig. at is a sectional view as taken on the line 4 4 in Fig. 3. Figs. 5 and 6 are respectively a back side elevation and top view of the device shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 7 is an enlarged section of the cutting-lip projection hereinafter described, taken on the lines 7 7 in'Figs. 2, 5, 8, and 9. Fig. 8 isasectional View of a thimble without the circumferential bead usually found at the bottom of the same, showing a full band modification of my device adapted therefor, which is also shown separately in Figs. 9 and 10, which are re pectively a side elevation and top view of the same.

As before stated, it is my object to provide a thread-cutter adapted to be attached to thimbles, which, while performing the functions of a cutter, shall not, as attached to the thimble,

.in any way interfere with the ordinary use of the thimble as a thimble. I accomplish this by forming a circular band-shaped springpiece A, made to fit around the base of the thimble B. At apoint preferably midwayin its length this piece A is formed, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 5, with a transversely-projecting lip-piece O. Extending in the opposite" direction to the lip-piece O is the short projection D. (Shown in Figs. 1 and 5.)

As shown in Fig. 6, the portion of the bandpiece A corresponding in the length of the same with the position of the extending lippieces 0 and D is bent or bulged, so as to 0ffset the material of the band outside orbeyond the circle, as would be formed by a continuation of the band. The object of this is to throw the upwardly-projecting lip-piece 0, when the band A as a whole is attached to the thimble B, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, away from the body of the thimble, so that the thread can be conveniently caught in behind the lip Owhen it is desired to out the thread. Each side of the upwardly-extending lip C is formed with the cutting-edges E, as shown in the section in Fig. 7.

In applying the attachment A it is slipped over the thimble B and pushed down to the base of the same, the open band permitting this and the spring in the same making it fit snugly around the thimble, and also permitting the lower lip D to slip over the bead F at the base of the thimble B. This lipDis bent inwardly, so that when the band ispushed home, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, it laps over the beaded edge, as shown in Fig. 2, firmly retaining the attachment on the thimble. The bulge in the band, as shown in Fig. 6, while, as before stated, it throws the point of the lip C away from the thimble, so that the thread can be conveniently caught behind the same, it presents a cutting-edge, as shown in Figs. 2 and 6, for the thread approximately at right angles to the thread when drawn taut against the same.

As a modification of my device I have dispensed with the retaining-lip D and slip the ends of my band-piece A in under two overlapping finger-pieces G, punched and bent out from the body of the thimble B, as shown in Figs. 3 and A.

As an adaptation of my device to be used with thimbles B, that have not the usual bead around the base, I have shown in Figs. 8, 9,

and 10 a device which is a closed band A", I

provided with an upwardly-extending lip at a downWardly-projeating retaining-lip forsethe bulge, whereby the point of theouttingcuring the band to the thiinble, substantially lip is thrown away from the thilnble to enable as and for the purposes described.

the thread to be caught behind the point, sub- In testimony whereof I have affixed my sig- 1 5 5 stantially as and for the purposes described. nature, in presence of two witnesses, this 16th 2. A thread-cutter for thimbles, consisting day of December, 1890.

of a thimble-band having abnlge therein and provided with an upwardly-extending lip at AR PHUR SKA FSIOK the bulge, whereby the point of the cuttingxo lip is thrown away from the thimble to enable the thread to be canghtbehind the point, and

Vitnesses:

J. W. CROOKES, WM. M. BYRNE. 

